Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

142A, 144 ST VINCENT STREETLB33160

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
06/07/1966
Local Authority
Glasgow
Planning Authority
Glasgow
Burgh
Glasgow
NGR
NS 58737 65498
Coordinates
258737, 665498

Description

James Salmon Jnr (Salmon, Son and Gillespie), 1899-1902.

Striking Art Nouveau commercial building. 8 storeys, attic

and basement. Narrow 3-bay elelvation; 2-outer bays

breaking forward to cant above 1st floor, rising to 5th.

Steel frame, ashlar faced. Left entry at head of steps with

leaded-glass bowed oriel over; larger oriel to similar window

in right E bay, with plain glass, over secondary entrance. 1st

floor sculpted frieze to either side of central arch with

corbels supporting canted bays. Canted bays above have slim

pilaster mullions with projecting bases and capitals

individually treated; bowed iron balconies to 6th floor;

cornice treated as cill band at each floor.

Central bays: ground and 1st floor central canted bay, column

mullions at ground, basement and 1st, 4-centred arched central

light at 1st with stylised keyblock. Bipartites above.

Solid curved parapet at 4th floor with sculpted and open

segmented moulding, detail arched recessed windows with

square section colonettes. 7th floor giant recessed canted

bay crowns whole elevation with pilaster architraves and

segmental pediments. Boldly projecting eaves; exaggerated

shaped dormers responsible for name "The hat-rack". Corniced

end stack.

INTERIOR: wrought-iron lift shaft. Stained glass over W door.

Retains some timber and plaster details.

Very elaborate Art Nouveau metalwork particularly at roof

level and at lift.

Statement of Special Interest

109' x 26' 6" site.

References

Bibliography

B J Dec 31 1902. Glasgow Advertiser and Property Circular

Aug 1 1899 (shows now concealed eastern elevation). Gomme

and Walker 1968, pp 222-4, 295. Doak (ed) 1977, No 158.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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